"I started gymnastics in 1976.
I loved it.
And I had a certain aptitude for it.
I was a national team member for eight years.
And I was a national champion in 1986.
I think it's dangerous to assume that we
have a one guy problem with Nassar and that with him gone,
the sport is now safe,
and these girls are now safe."
More than 250 women have come forward
to say they were sexually abused by former U.S.A. Gymnastics doctor
Larry Nassar.
The scandal has highlighted what many gymnasts
say is a culture of abuse within U.S.A.G.
"The standard and the expectation if you want to win
is an environment that is rife with physical
and emotional abuse.
And I think this creates the conditions where
sexual abuse can occur."
U.S.A. Gymnastics has complaint files on 54 coaches
from 1996 to 2006, according to documents obtained
by The Indianapolis Star.
For decades, U.S.A.G. empowered itself
to investigate complaints before deciding whether
to contact law enforcement.
Former U.S.A.G. president Steve Penny once said in a deposition:
"To the best of my knowledge, there
is no duty to report if you are a third party to some allegation."
These gymnastics coaches were accused of sexual abuse.
Here's how U.S.A. Gymnastics handled their cases.
Don Peters led the U.S. women's team
to a record breaking eight medals at the 1984 Olympics.
"The head coach of the American women's team
is Don Peters, one of the most respected men in gymnastics."
In 2011, three gymnasts told The Orange County Register
that Peters had sex with them when
they were teenagers in the '80s.
Peters was banned for life by U.S.A. Gymnastics
two months after the report was published.
He was also removed from the Sports Hall of Fame.
Marvin Sharpe was the U.S.A. Gymnastics 2010
coach of the year.
U.S.A.G. got a detailed account of abuse involving Sharp in 2011,
but it wasn't until a 14-year-old
came forward in 2015 that the federation contacted police.
Sharpe was arrested in August 2015
and committed suicide in his jail cell one month later.
Stephen Infante was a popular coach in New England gymnastics.
In 1997, gymnasts accused Infante of having sex with them when
they were teenagers.
After an internal investigation
U.S.A. Gymnastics barred Infante for life,
but the organization didn't go to the police,
and Infante continued coaching girls at gymnastics summer camps.
Infante was charged with raping one of his former athletes
a decade later and was convicted in 2010.
Last year, a nonprofit called the U.S. Center for SafeSport
was put in charge of preventing and handling abuse
in Olympic sports,
and in the wake of the Nassar scandal
the entire U.S.A. Gymnastics board has been forced to resign.
Many athletes and victims of abuse
say these actions are too little, too late.
And some wonder if it's truly enough
to transform a culture that failed
to protect its young women.
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